Aneurin Jones RCA

Aneurin M. Jones was born a farmer's son in the rural community of Cwm Wysg on the border of the old counties of Brecon and Carmarthen. He received his higher education at Swansea College of Art, where, from 1950 to 1955, he studied fine art; after graduation he spent two years with Celtic Studios, designing stained glass windows for churches in Britain, Canada and the United States. He was head of the Art Department at Ysgol Y Preseli, Crmych when it opened in September 1958 until July 1986.

The artist has been a regular exhibitor at the National Eisteddfod, and whilst a student in 1954 was placed second for the gold medal awarded in the final art open competition. He won the gold medal in 1981. He has exhibited across Wales, in London and the USA with numerous one and two-man shows.

"The essence of my work emanates from the formative years I spent in the mythical land of my birth. Although I moved away in the pursuit of education etc, a part of me never left the area at all. It was its landscape & people that moulded me in effect ~ it was their stories which fired my early imagination & it was their humanity which formed my outlook on life.

The physical shape & pattern of these people excite me creatively & this is the drive which results in my paintings. The themes which appear in this exhibition are drawn from this life ~ the power of the horse, an individual's contemplation in space, the seasons passing.
Although the education I received in Swansea College of Art bore the influence of the Renaissance, it is an older & more mystical tradition which moves me creatively. This is the tradition of the storyteller, the tradition of keeping the memory of a people."

Aneurin Jones RCA
 Ganed Aneurin M. Jones yn fab i ffermwr yng nghymdogaeth wledig Cwm Wysg, ar y ffin rhwng yr hen siroedd Brycheiniog a Sir Gaerfyrddin. Cafod ei addysg uwchradd yng Ngholeg Celf Abertawe rhwng y blynyddoedd 1950 a 1955. Yno bu'n astudio celfyddyd gain, ac ar ol graddio treuliodd ddwy flynedd gyda Celtic Studios yn cynllunio ffenestri gwydr am-liw ar gyfer eglwysi ym Mhrydain, Canada a'r Unol Daleithau. Ef oedd pennaeth yr Adran Gelfyddyd yn Ysgol y Preseli, Crymych, o'r agoriad ym mis Medi 1958 tan Orffennaf 1986.

Y mae'r arlunydd yn arddangos ei waith yn gyson yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol a thra yn fyfyriwr ym 1954 enillodd yr ail wobr yn y gystadleuaeth fedal aur yn y dosbarth celfyddyd gain agored.

"Mae crynswth fy ngwaith yn tarddu o'r blynyddoedd ffurfiannol a dreuliais ym mro chwedlonol fy ngeni. Er imi symud i ffwrdd i fynd i'r coleg ac yn y blaen , y mae rhan ohonof nad adawodd fy mro enedigol o gwbl. Y tirwedd hwnnw a'i bobl a'm creodd i bob pwrpas ~ eu straeon a daniodd fy nychymyg cynnar a gwarineb eu cymdeithas a ffurfiodd fy neall.

Mae osgo a siap y cymeriadau gwledig yn rhyfeddod parhaus imi , a dathlu'r cyffro creadigol hwnnw yw sbardun fy mhaentiadau. Pethau sy'n ymwneud a'r bywyd hwnnw ~ pwer y ceffyl, myfyrdod yr unigolyn mewn gwagle, ro'r tymhorau ~ yw themau arhosol fy ngwaith.

Er fod dylanwad clasurol y Dadeni Dysg ar yr addysg a dderbyniais yng Ngholeg Celf Abertawe , traddodiad hyn a mwy lledrithiol yw'r un sy'n aflonyddu arnaf pan fo creadigrwydd yn taro. Traddodiad y cyfarwydd yw hwnnw, traddodiad y dweud stori a chadw'r cof. Yn hyn o beth, mae rhywbeth cyffrous ar droed pan fo iaith a delwedd yn plethu."


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